Girl who thinks if you answer the question of where you got something with 'I got it at the thrift store' then you're purposely gatekeeping and enabling elitism: "Haha your necklace is so cute where did you get it"
Me, who found it buried in a far away park years ago while I was digging at night: "Uh you're not going to like this"
@foolishMachine Okay so the like of reasoning is pretty complicated (and also stupid). On TikTok especially, there’s been a rise in being “a girl’s girl”, i.e. a girl who looks out for and supports other girls. Stuff like telling a stranger she has lettuce stuck in her teeth, or lending people makeup or hygiene products in emergencies. Part of this has also meant a popularity in bashing on mean girls, especially mean girls who don’t support other girls. A big example of this was awhile ago (it could’ve been weeks, months, or years, time has lost all meaning to me) was some post where a girl says asking where someone got something is rude because they’re trying to be original and you’re copying them. Obviously that’s stupid and mean, and there was a big backlash and “sharing where you got your clothes” became the ultimate symbol of “the girls girl”. This led to the rise of “girls girls don’t gatekeep”, where people would go out of their way to share links to what they’re wearing (I believe this at least partly started out of a genuine want to share clothes information, but now is mostly used for affiliate marketing). Since “sharing where you got your clothes” is now a symbol of girl code and pop feminism, NOT sharing where you got them is suspicious. This led to some people accusing those who respond “I got it at the thrift store” of lying to gatekeep their sense of fashion, especially people who go a step further and say “I got it at the thrift store, sorry there’s no tag”. You could be telling the truth, OR you could be the evil mean girl here to disrupt the girls girls utopia. Thus, the rise of “Girl who thinks if you answer the question of where you got something with 'I got it at the thrift store' then you're purposely gatekeeping and enabling elitism” (the elitism part got thrown on just because TikTok likes to throw in words that don’t relate to an issue).
I’m fairly sure this is a bit of a “chronically online TikTok user take” and very few people actually hold this attitude aside from TikTok comment sections, but I’m also an agoraphobe who avoids offline human interaction so I can’t say for sure.
Apologies for how long and painfully gender binary that explanation is, I thought about making it more concise but I don’t have the willpower.
Lol even stuff I bought directly I don't know where it's from. Though honestly I don't think anyone's chomping at the bit to learn where I got a plain blue t-shirt and dad shorts from.
I’m about on the same wavelength, except I have an oddly specific talent of remembering things through random associations. I have a rainbow polaroid button up, I remember I got it from Plato’s closet (which if you don’t know is like thrifting but for people who think they’re too good for goodwill), which I remember because it’s rainbows, rainbows like Pride month, Pride month like June, and I bought the shirt in June, which I remember because it was hot walking into the store, and the Plato’s closet in my hometown was surrounded by very hot pavement. Therefore, I got the shirt there.
One day i’ll find a practical application for this clothes-based memory skill and you’ll all be finished
